Garden / Cross Spider - Araneus diadematus

    Family - Araneidae

    Genus - Araneus
    Perhaps the most commonly known Spider in the UK
    Spins an Orb Web. Distinctive Cross on the Abdomen.

    Old Lodge Nature Reserve
    Ashdown Forest
    East Sussex
    13.09.2011

    Brighton
    21.09.2011

    Brighton
    26.09.2011

    Brighton
    27.09.2011

    Male
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    09.10.2011

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    02/11/2010

    Gravid Female
    Brighton
    07/11/2010  

    Female guarding her Egg Sac, attached to a Tomb
    Extra Mural Cemetery
    Brighton, East Sussex
    25.10.2011

    Araneus diadematus (Female)

    Araneus diadematus (Male and Female)

    Back Garden, Brighton

    01/09/2010

    Araneus diadematus (Male)

    Back Garden, Brighton

    02/09/2010

 

    Araneus diadematus Spiderlings
    Back Garden, brighton
    19/05/2010

 

    Araneus diadematus Spiderlings on the move.

    Back Garden, Brighton

    17/05/2010

    Back Garden, Brighton

    25/09//2010

    Araneus diadematus (Male)
    Back Garden, Brighton
    24/08/2010

   

    Araneus diadematus (Female)

    Back Garden, Brighton

    28/09/2010

    Living by my backdoor.
    A fair size for the time of year.
    Brighton
    13.07.2011

    Female
    Back Garden
    Brighton
    14.08.2011

    Male sporting his rather elaborate Palps
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    29.08.2011 

    Juvenile
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    01.04.2011

    Back Garden
    Brighton
    10.08.2011

    Many thanks to Alice Hopkins who very kindly sent me this great Photograph
    of a Female Araneus diadematus 
    Launceston, Cornwall
    2011